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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Recently formed plans of the Harvard Debating Council include a triple debate with Princeton and Yale, it was indicated yesterday by P.C. Reardon '31, president of the council. The definite date of the meeting has not yet been announced, but that it will occur during the days of Wednesday, March 18, Thursday, March 19, or Friday, March 20, has already been determined...
Because it was another international affair, because the shooting occurred at a questionable distance offshore, because Prime Minister Bennett of Canada was just about to visit President Hoover in Washington (see p. 11), the official U. S. investigation was prompt and thorough. Assertions by some members of the Josephine K.'s crew that Mate Schmidt was drunk were disproved to the satisfaction of the Coast Guard board. As in the still unsettled case of the I'm Alone (TIME, April 1, 1929), the main question was: Did the shelling and seizure occur within the jurisdiction...
...such an open break should occur in a U. S. political party it almost certainly would mean at least a hiatus in the breaker's party career. If Governor Ritchie had broken with Alfred Emanuel Smith and the latter had been elected President in 1928, Mr. Ritchie would certainly not have been in the Smith Cabinet. But in Britain party organization is not so strong, individual leadership more important. It is no new thing for brilliant, erratic Winston Churchill to leave the Conservative fold. In 1906 he left to become a Liberal. In 1915 he left the Liberals...
...regulations and control. The Corporation would have a complete monopoly of the manufacture, importation and distribution of liquor, which would be stored in its bonded warehouses. If a State chose to sell liquor, it would create a local corporation as a subsidiary of the national corporation. Retail sale would occur through branches of the State corporation to citizens holding permit books. Nothing could be drunk on the premises. Prices uniform everywhere would be fixed by the national corporation scaling upward in proportion to the alcoholic content of the beverage. Drunkenness or misbehavior would be grounds for revoking a citizen...
...unlawfully, as a token of money, issue a piece of metal of the value of one penny [or puffin] contrary to section five of the Coinage Act of 1870." In his appeal before the higher court last week Mr. Harman said: "As is very well known, when anything serious occurs in Lundy the British Government disclaims responsibility. They have done so whenever the entire population have been murdered!" "Indeed?" observed Mr. Justice Avory with interest. "And does murder of the entire population often occur?" "Yes," snapped Mr. Harman. "Pirates often used to do it." "But at the present time does...